Category Archives: Leadership

For many professors in leadership and organization studies-related fields, a big part of our job is thinking seriously about how organizational leaders can address the world’s problems and opportunities. However, it’s fair to say that the for a good number of professors, the extent of their real world impact doesn’t go beyond an indirect impact through their teaching. Continue reading →

Where is it hardest to be a leader? A major company attempting a comeback… a huge conglomerate like General Electric…leading major government agencies? In an article in Forbes, Rob Ashgar claims that the toughest leadership job isn’t being head of one of America’s major companies, but rather being the president of a major university. Continue reading →

The basic premise of the book is that higher institutions education in the U.S. have attempted to emulate the model of Harvard, with several distinctive and very expensive features. Colleges and universities have developed cost models that are unsustainable and most need to re-evaluate their practice and consider adoption of new models in order to be sustainable. Continue reading →

Most of us have heard about Google’s generous employee benefits…gym memberships, free gourmet food, bowling alleys at work, nap rooms, etc. However, it’s not just all of those perks that have resulted in the company creating one of the best places to work in the world. It’s in Google’s DNA to create work environments that foster freedom, flexibility, and employee voice. Google has taken thrown out many traditional assumptions about management/supervision and HR practices. Continue reading →

In workplaces, community groups, and other settings, we oftentimes seek to make things better for people from diverse backgrounds. Sometimes we will benefit directly from those changes and sometimes we’re working with others to attain changes that will benefit society or an organization in general. Continue reading →

The flow or transfer of knowledge is critical in a decentralized franchisee organization. In these organizations, innovation often happens at the local, franchisee level. Tacit knowledge is the informal implicit knowledge Continue reading →

Polly LaBarre writes in the Harvard Business Review Blog about a leadership development program that brings about organization change by transforming “the hearts and minds of people” rather than “changing systems and processes.”